The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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