Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Each day is a little life.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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