Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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