Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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 man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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