Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Each day is a little life.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Genius 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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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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