The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERUniversal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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