If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFate shuffles the cards and we play.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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 forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Almost 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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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