If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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