Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.