Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIt is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The world is my idea.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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