Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTruth is most beautiful undraped.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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