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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Dogs
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Ability
Famous
Man
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Men
Nature
Women
Enemies
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness
Money
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Music
World
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thought
Absurdity
World
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Change
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality
Compassion
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
Death
Day
Rest
Sleep
Waking
Youth
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vision
Limits
Man
World
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nation
Nations
Right
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Death
Parting
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vision
Limits
World
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness
Time
Chance
Lent
May
Possession