“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Human Nature,
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“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Wealth
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“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Modesty, Honesty, Hypocrisy
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Limitations, Perspective
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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Books
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“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Mankind, Weakness, Stupidity
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“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Life, Intelligence
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“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topic: Death
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“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”