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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!
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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
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