Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf 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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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 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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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