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Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Fame Man Will

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Death Rest

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Money People

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Nation Right

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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