The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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