The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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 a constant process of dying.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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