Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- 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

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.

- Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- 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