Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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