Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
From Arthur Schopenhauer
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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