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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
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A happy life is impos­si­ble the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.
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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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At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog and I have similar experiences with mankind.
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