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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- 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.
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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