If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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