Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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