Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf 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 swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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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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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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The world is my idea.
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