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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
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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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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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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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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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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
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