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" 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
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" After your death you will be what you were before your birth. "
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" It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. "
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" To live alone is the fate of all great souls. "
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Great
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" Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. "
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Dirty
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" Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hit
See
Talent
" Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Honor
Must
" Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reunion
Resurrection
" Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. "
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Medical
Sees
" National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Name
Character
Right
" In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thought
World
Only
" 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
Good
Books
Time
" In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Rights
Part
Double
" It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Avoid
Gain
Pain
" A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
He
Man
Want
" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Work
Art
Like
" Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Character
Company
Man
" We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Brainy
People
Other
" 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
" 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. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Death
Pay
Redemption
" Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Immortal
Eternal
Change
" 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. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain
Only
Growth
" If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Us
Endure
Ourselves
" It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Shows
Treatment
Trifles
" Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You
Buildings
" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. "
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Politeness
Nature
" The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. "
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Any
Happiness
Health
" 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
" Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thinking
Head
Own
" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Alone
He
Solitude