Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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