No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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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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