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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA 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.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Each day is a little life.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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