Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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