Berthold Auerbach Quotes

Liberty Is From God; Liberties, From The Devil.

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.

The Vain Being Is The Really Solitary Being.

Truly, One Gets Easier Accustomed To A Silken Bed Than To A Sack Of Leaves.

The World Is The Same Everywhere.

Weak Men Are Easily Put Out Of Humor. Oil Freezes Quicker Than Water.

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.

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.

With Hat In Hand, One Gets On In The World.

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.

Our Second Mother, Habit, Is Also A Good Mother.

It Is Only When One Is Thoroughly True That There Can Be Purity And Freedom. Falsehood Always Punishes Itself.