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• Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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  Country, Winning, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

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  Gratitude, Blessing, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

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  Men, Needs, Normal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.33, Full Moon Publications

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• Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

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  Crush, Strong, Hero

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.63, 谷月社

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• The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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  Writing, Interesting, Novelists

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1904). “The Art of Literature (illustrated)”, p.50, Full Moon Publications

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• Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

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  Stars, Fall, Light

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• Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

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  Evil, Hats, Consciousness

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

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  Opportunity, Broken, Weakness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.55, Full Moon Publications

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• The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

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  Pain, Reality, Depth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.41, Publishdrive

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• A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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  Book, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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  Loss, Teach, Values

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• A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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  Purpose, Too Much, Defeat

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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  Life, Morning, Looks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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  Desire, Limits, Impossible

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.346, Oxford University Press

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• On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

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  Heart, Path, Action

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

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  Reading, Book, Mean

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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  Happiness, Pleasure, Repetition

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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• It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

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  Way, Reverse

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.10, 谷月社

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• Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

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  Men, Negative, Satisfaction

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• Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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  Taken, Ideas, Firsts

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• I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

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  Believe, Feelings, Elements

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

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  Men, Artist, Symphony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

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  Happiness, Way, Looks

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• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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  Country, Character, Names

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

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• Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

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  Pride, Proud, Be Proud

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