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
hands world hats
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
work world
The world is the same everywhere.
work command
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
anger men oil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
belief firm
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
gratitude joy soil
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
bed easier accustomed
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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.
healing solitude companion
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
truth purity falsehood
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.