Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA 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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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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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