We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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 can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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