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

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Any Follies Greatest Happiness Health Kind Other Sacrifice

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Exceptional Fame He Honor Lost Man Means Must Only Something Which Won

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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

Topics: Dirty Domain Doors Fellow Felt Itself Learning Make Out Patriotism Should Thrown Wants Who

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Author Effect Fault Gives Hardly He Him Intelligible Just Makes Opposite Pedantic Reprehensible Same Same Time Says Speak Speaks Time Write Writes

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

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: After Before Birth Death Were Will You Your

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Doubt Enjoyed Given Got Life No Doubt Over Overcome Us

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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

Topics: Capital Date Death Further Higher Interest More Paid Pay Postponed Rate Redemption Regularly Sleep Which

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Every Every Man Field His Limits Man Own Takes Vision World

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Action Chief Great Head Heart Qualification Work

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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Ask Feels Him Man Never Occurs Want

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 22nd, 1788

Died: September 21st, 1860

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