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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

Arthur Schopenhauer Life Morning Sleep

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Birth You Will

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

Arthur Schopenhauer Sleep Redemption Interest

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Speed Remember You

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Pain Boredom Human

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.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Money Human Abstract

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Health Sacrifice Greatest

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Talent Genius See

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Patriotism Doors Dirty

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Art Training Animal

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Nature Men Enemies

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

Arthur Schopenhauer Hands Hand Second

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Strong Man Mind

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness Time Back

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Nature Suffering Painful

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Value Yourself Library

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Doctor Stupidity Weakness

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

Arthur Schopenhauer First Three Through

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

Arthur Schopenhauer Discovery Weakness Opinion

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.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Life Man Thoughts

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Alone Live Fate

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Men Solitude Great Men

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Honesty Talent People

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer People Spring Almost

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Life Freedom Pain

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Friends Passport Fortune

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Thoughts Win People

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

Arthur Schopenhauer Friends Regret Look

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Alone Immortal Perpetual
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