Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbachwas a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 February 1812
CountryGermany
anger men oil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
selfish men vanity
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.
men window modern
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
men age silver
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
men corruption young
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
work command
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
belief firm
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
bed easier accustomed
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
hands world hats
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
character stains
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
eye maturity people
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.
mother good-mother habit
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
imagination despots
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
needs
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.