We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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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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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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