Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Each day is a little life.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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