Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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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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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.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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Compassion is the basis of all morality.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
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