Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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