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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  People, Use, Stones

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• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Sad, Money

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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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  Struggle, Majority, Lasts

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• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite

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• I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Plato, Writing, Development

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.417, Courier Corporation

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• The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Men, Desire

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• The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Waiting, Long Life

  "Willen in der Natur". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 'Einleitung', 1836.

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• Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Winning

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• (Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Agreement, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Marriage, Wedding, Mean

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• If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Law, Feelings, Fusion

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• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

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  Mean, People, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Essence, Two

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Religious, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

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  Inward, Honour, Conscience

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

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• Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

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  Ignorance, Riches, Found

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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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  Business, Men, Deceiving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Heart, Tears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

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• No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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  Writing, Sake, Subjects

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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  Sad, World, Dominion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Vision, Tools, Looks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Should, Clear

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.20, 谷月社

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