Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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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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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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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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