We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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