Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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