Berthold Auerbach Quotes

#1. What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

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#2. To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

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#3. People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

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#4. To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

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#5. No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

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#6. The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

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#7. In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

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#8. He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

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#9. Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

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#10. When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

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#11. Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

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#12. Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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#13. We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

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#14. Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

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#15. Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

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#16. Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

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#17. The vain being is the really solitary being.

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#18. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

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#19. Imagination is the mightiest despot.

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#20. Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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#21. Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

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#22. Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

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#23. Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

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#24. I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

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#25. Years teach us more than books.

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#26. It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

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#27. The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

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#28. Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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#29. With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

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#30. The world is the same everywhere.

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#31. What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

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#32. When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

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#33. Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

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#34. Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

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#35. We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

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