If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Each day is a little life.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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 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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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