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More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.