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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
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