Berthold Auerbach Professions : Poet Born : February 28, 1812 Died : February 8, 1882 Browse All Authors Top 37 quotes by Berthold Auerbach The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men. Berthold Auerbach silver age men Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? Berthold Auerbach command work Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. Berthold Auerbach accustomed easier bed Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found. Berthold Auerbach modern men window Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. Berthold Auerbach institutions abstract creeds The vain being is the really solitary being. Berthold Auerbach solitary vanity vain 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 lightning eye looks With hat in hand, one gets on in the world. Berthold Auerbach hats hands world Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. Berthold Auerbach devil liberty We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. Berthold Auerbach tedious important weather 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 vanity selfish men It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. Berthold Auerbach falsehood purity truth Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. Berthold Auerbach companion solitude healing He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy. Berthold Auerbach needs 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 maturity eye long 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 disaster mountain feet Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. Berthold Auerbach good-mother habit mother Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
