The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln Quotes

“For when a man has no need thereof, everyone wishes to befriend him, but when he stands in want of friends they are not, as the story goes, to be found.”
― Glückel of Hameln, The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

“Many a man, when things go contrary, thinks he is suffering evil, yet the very thing we hold an evil may prove a blessing.”
― Glückel of Hameln, The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

“Die ganze Welt ist voll Pein,
Ein jeder find’t das Sein.
(The world is one long groan,
Which each man calls his own.)”
― Glückel of Hameln, The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

“found,”
― Glückel von Hameln, Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln