Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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