Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual… - Arthur Schopenhauer

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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).

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حياة الوحدة مصير كل الأرواح العظيمة.

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people, — the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

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