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The world is the same everywhere.

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

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

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

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.

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

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

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

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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

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

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

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

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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

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

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

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

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.

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

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Years teach us more than books.

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.

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

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