Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Each day is a little life.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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 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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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