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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTo 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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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