41 Quotes by Berthold Auerbach

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.

The world is the same everywhere.

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.

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

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

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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

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