After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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