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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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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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