After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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