The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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