Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The world is my idea.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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