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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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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.
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
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