Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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