Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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