We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGenius lives only one story above the madness.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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