Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the … - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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The majority of men. . . are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and. . . are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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