One should use common words to say uncommon things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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