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" Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friends
Fortune
Money
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" The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. "
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" Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. "
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Reunion
Resurrection
" Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! "
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" It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. "
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" Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Youth
Sleep
" The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thirty
First
Forty
" There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
You
Age
Air
" The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Any
Happiness
Health
" A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mouth
Thoughts
Man
" Compassion is the basis of morality. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality
Compassion
Basis
" Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Element
Life
Pain
" The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
More
Opinion
" All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
First
Second
" Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Own
World
Vision
" Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Other
Hands
Only
" Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellect
Forcing
Place
" To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Person
Away
Error
" Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
World
Person
Vision
" Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hit
See
Talent
" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Human Nature
Politeness
Nature
" Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art
Training
Animal
" To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Opinion
You
Find
" Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Women
Nature
Enemies
" It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man
Guard
Character
" We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friends
Look
Success
" Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. "
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Become
Way
Ability
" The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. "
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More
Mysterious
Existence
" Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. "
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See
Man
Mind
" Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame
Lost
Man
" The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Coming
Last
Longer