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" Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. "
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" There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Overcome
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" If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. "
George S. Patton
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" I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. "
Socrates
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" Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. "
Salvador Dali
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" To live alone is the fate of all great souls. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. "
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" A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. "
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" 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
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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
" 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
" Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Great
Build
" Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Play
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" 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
Time
Past
Opinion
" The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Things
Gold
Many
" To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Good
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" The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Said
Done
Always
" If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You
" 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
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" I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Education
Trouble
Never
" The word of man is the most durable of all material. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Durable
Material
Man
" Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Element
Life
Pain
" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Own
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Man
" I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. "
Malcolm X
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" Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Intellect
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" It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. "
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" Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. "
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