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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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Pride works _from within_ it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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Mensch kann tun was er will er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
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A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won honor, only something which must not be lost.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
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