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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the worls.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosophe...
• No man knows of what stuff he is made until prosperity and ease try him. -- A.P. Gouthey
• The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
  ... Noise is a torture to all intellectual people. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
  -- Jorge Luis Borge...
• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
  -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)...
• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhaue
• Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhaue