Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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 is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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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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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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