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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
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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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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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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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