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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Category: Age Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Category: Change Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Category: Death Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Category: Humility Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Category: Manners Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
Category: Money Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Category: Perspective Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
Category: Religion Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Category: Sleep Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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