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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
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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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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Reason is feminine in nature it can only give after it has received.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
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the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
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