Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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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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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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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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