If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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