Berthold Auerbach Quotes

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach
Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.

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

Berthold Auerbach
We make nothing; we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from formless chaos.

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

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

Berthold Auerbach
When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

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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. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise.

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

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A. N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?

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What people will say — in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.

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

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To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berthold Auerbach
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.

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

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

Berthold Auerbach
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

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

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

Berthold Auerbach