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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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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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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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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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