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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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