The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about 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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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 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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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