The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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Each day is a little life.
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The world is my idea.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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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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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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