There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
From Arthur Schopenhauer
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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