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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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