Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The world is my idea.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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