"If the lives of men were relieved of……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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