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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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