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Certain Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
- Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace…
- Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
- 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…
- Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of…
- 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…
- And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men…
- Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy…
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