It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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The world is my idea.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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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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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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Each day is a little life.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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