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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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Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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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 man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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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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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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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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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
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