The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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