Berthold Auerbach Quotes - Page 2

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Truth, Purity, Falsehood

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Abstract, Creeds, Institutions

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mother, Good Mother, Habit

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

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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.

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  Selfish, Men, Vanity

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• 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 into the other.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Eye, Maturity, Long

  Berthold Auerbach (18??). “Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life”

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Hands, World, Hats

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

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  Anger, Men, Weak Man

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• The world is the same everywhere.

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  Work, World

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

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Bed, Easier, Accustomed

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

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• The vain being is the really solitary being.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Vanity, Vain, Solitary

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

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• No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Eye, Lightning, Looks

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• Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Liberty, Devil

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