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• Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sleep, Life Is, Loan

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

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• Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Swings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

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• To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.109, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Native American

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.55, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Being Alone, Men, Alone Man

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.19, 谷月社

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• Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Tasks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.24, Publishdrive

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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

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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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  Children, Reality, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.63, Full Moon Publications

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Important, Elements, May

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• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forgiveness, Wise, Ignorance

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• A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happy Life, Men, Heroic

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.322, Oxford University Press

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• The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

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  Real, Home, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Dog, Moving

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• The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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• Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

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  Change, Teacher, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.28, Publishdrive

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• Life without pain has no meaning.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Without Pain

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• Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Anger, Philosophical, Heart

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.591, Oxford University Press

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• It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Keeping Quiet, Quiet, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.31, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Everybody's friend is nobody's.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Relationship

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• I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

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• Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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  Pain, Believe, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.52, Publishdrive

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• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Opposites

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• The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Pigs, Tree

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