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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract.
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Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
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At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.
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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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