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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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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.
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
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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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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
Arthur Schopenhauer
