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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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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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Money is human happiness in the abstract.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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