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• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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  Philosophical, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

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  Cat, Pet, Helpful

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• If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

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  Gossip, Silence, Secret

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.43, Publishdrive

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• Time is that in which all things pass away.

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  Time, Passing Away, Time Management

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.28, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

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  Dream, Depressing, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.31, Publishdrive

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• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

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  Taken, Heart, Tears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

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• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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  Hands, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.341, Oxford University Press

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• The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

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  Mind, Pleasure, Lasting

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

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• Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

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  Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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• First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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  Firsts, Truth Is, Outrage

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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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• One should use common words to say uncommon things

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  Writing, Use, Common

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.30, Full Moon Publications

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• The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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  Solitude, Mind, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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  Hallmark, Existence, Restlessness

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• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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  Strong Women, Philosophical, Enemy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.65, Penguin UK

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• Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

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  Atheism, Pantheism, Form

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• Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

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  Something Better

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

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  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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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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• Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.94, Publishdrive

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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.

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  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

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  Wise, Stupid, Fire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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  Animal, Use, World

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• All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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  Heart, Understanding, Promise

  "The World as Will and Idea".

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