Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of 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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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