The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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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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