Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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