Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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The world is my idea.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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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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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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