Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Each day is a little life.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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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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