Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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If 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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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