Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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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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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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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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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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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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