The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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The world is my idea.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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