Arthur Schopenhauer

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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