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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The world is my idea.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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