Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The world is my idea.
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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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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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