"Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt." — Berthold Auerbach
"Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt."
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Berthold Auerbach
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19 Quotes by Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during…
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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…
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the…
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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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
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