Berthold Auerbach Quotes

• Years teach us more than books.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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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 dust of everyday life.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Dust, Practice, Soul

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Art, Money, Valor

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Artist, New Work, Littles

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.187

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Fear, Justice, Strive

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• Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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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.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Nature, Bird, Swamps

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Progress

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Window, Modern

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Hatred, Soul, Harbors

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• Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Gratitude, Joy, Soil

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.436

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Character, Stains

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• Imagination is the mightiest despot.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Imagination, Despots

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.430

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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.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mean, Gay, Expression

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

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  Grief, Rain, Fall

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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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.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Lying, People, Mind

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Corruption, Ends

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Needs

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.463

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Work, Command

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Healing, Solitude, Companion

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.432

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

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  Weather, Important, Tedious

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.439

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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.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Selfish, Men, Vanity

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Age, Silver

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Knowledge, Weather, Tomorrow

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• The world is the same everywhere.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Work, World

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.437

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