We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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If 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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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The world is my idea.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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