"Wealth as well as sea water. The..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
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“He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.”
“Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.”
“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”
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“Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.”
“I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.”
“You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.”
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“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
“It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.”