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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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