Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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