Berthold Auerbach Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world. — Berthold Auerbach

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

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

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

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

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

The world is the same everywhere. — Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being. — Berthold Auerbach

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

Years teach us more than books. — Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. — Berthold Auerbach

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

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

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

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

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. — Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. — Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. — Berthold Auerbach

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

Imagination is the mightiest despot. — Berthold Auerbach

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

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

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

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

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