Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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