Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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