No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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