We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Each day is a little life.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about 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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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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