The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERUniversal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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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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