Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost 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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Each day is a little life.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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