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• Arthur Schopenhauer:

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

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

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

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  The word of man is the most durable of all material.

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shou

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwell

• Arthur Schopenhauer:

  In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.