Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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