Berthold Auerbach Quotes

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• Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
• Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
• Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
• 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…
• 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.…
• To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
• Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
• Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
• Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
• If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
• The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
• The vain being is the really solitary being.
• 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…
• No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be…
• Years teach us more than books.
• What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.
• To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
• Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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