We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure 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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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Each day is a little life.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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