We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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