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 SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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