Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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