Berthold Auerbach

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

— 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

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— 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

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach

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

— Berthold Auerbach