We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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