They tell us that suicide
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.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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- The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Human life must be some form of mistake. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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