Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

— Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.

— Berthold Auerbach

The world is the same everywhere.

— Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

— Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of…

— Berthold Auerbach

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also…

— Berthold Auerbach

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything…

— Berthold Auerbach

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass…

— Berthold Auerbach

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the…

— Berthold Auerbach

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision…

— Berthold Auerbach

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and…

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

“Wer nicht zufrieden ist mit dem, was er hat, der waere auch nicht zufrieden mit dem, was er haben moechte.”

— Berthold Auerbach

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are…

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach