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• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

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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.

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  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

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• Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

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  Mean, Vexation, Life Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.85, 谷月社

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• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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  Friendship, Compassion, Animal

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

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• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

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  Believe, Fall, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

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• The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

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  Long, Waiting, Long Life

  "Willen in der Natur". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 'Einleitung', 1836.

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• For our improvement we need a mirror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mirrors, Needs, Improvement

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

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• Compassion is the basis of morality.

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  Forgiveness, Wise, Ignorance

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• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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  Clever, Stupid, Quality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

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

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• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

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  Passion, Fool, Foolish

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

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  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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• If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

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  Heart, World, Misery

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

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  Keeping Quiet, Quiet, Difficult

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

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• For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

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  Motivation, Compassion, Effort

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• Life is a constant process of dying.

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  Philosophical, Dying, Life Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.40, Publishdrive

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• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Philosophical

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• The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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  Character, Tragedy, Details

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.211, Kshetra Books

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• Man shows his character best in trifles.

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  Character, Men, Trifles

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• Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

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  Book, Important, Should

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• I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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  Reading, Trouble, Hours

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• Everybody's friend is nobody's.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Relationship

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• Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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  Money, Philosophical, Winning

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

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  Children, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Passion, Thinking, Long

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

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