Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAfter your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of 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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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