Best 28 quotes of Berthold Auerbach on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Years teach us more than books.