Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it."
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Vexation
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Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still."
Anne Bronte
Author
"No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer."
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"The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable."
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"Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit."
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"it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
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"A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state."
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"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state."
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"However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot."
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"Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation."
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"A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other."
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