Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of 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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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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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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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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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