The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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 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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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