Best quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer on Man

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• ‟ A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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• ‟ Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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• ‟ They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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• ‟ Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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• ‟ The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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• ‟ Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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• ‟ Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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

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• ‟ A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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

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• ‟ Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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