Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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