The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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Life 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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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