The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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