If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife 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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The world is my idea.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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A 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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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