Compassion for animals is intimately ass... by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Patriotism

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

Nature

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Work

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Death

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Delight Man

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.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Death Will

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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