Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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