Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReligion 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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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