The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The world is my idea.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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 swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Each day is a little life.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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