If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTo 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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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The world is my idea.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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