The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGenius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The world is my idea.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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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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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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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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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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