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• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Compassion, Animal

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

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• There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

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  Pain, Lying, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

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  Children, Mean, Blessing

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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  Maturity, Men, Eight

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

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  Inspirational, Self, Accepted

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• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

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  Memories, Eye, Long Ago

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

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  Men, Tunes, Variation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• Each day is a little life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Each Day, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

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  Life, Philosophy, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)”, p.10, Kshetra Books

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• No one can transcend their own individuality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Individuality

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• It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Treatment, Trifles

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• There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Differences, Thinker

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• Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Like Love, Doe

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.50, Publishdrive

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• When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

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  Believe, Men, Wish

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• We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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  Thinking, May, Firsts

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• In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

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  Marriage, Mean, Rights

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 27, § 370, 2007.

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

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  Noise, Pessimism, Form

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

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  Horse, Real, Quiet

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• Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

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  Giving, Style, Currency

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• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hurt, Doe, Treats

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

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  Life, Men, Progress

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  True Life, Life Is, Understood

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• A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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  Sad, Men, Looks

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• I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Eye, Light

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• To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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