Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Each day is a little life.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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