Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Each day is a little life.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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