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Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Man Will

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.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Man Life

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Fortune Friends

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Character Man

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.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Germany Suffering Nature People Will

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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