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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.
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At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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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 world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
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Talent works for money and fame the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
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