One should use common words to say uncommon things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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 world is my idea.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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