Schopenhauer: Life is Like a Sweet Shop | Counsels & Maxims 47

Everything is made from the same sugar paste.
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Section 47 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 Life is Not So Varied
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Schopenhauer Text:
However varied the forms that human destiny may take, the same elements are always present; and so life is everywhere much of a piece, whether it passed in the cottage or in the palace, in the barrack or in the cloister. Alter the circumstance as much as you please! point to strange adventures, successes, failures! life is like a sweet-shop, where there is a great variety of things, odd in shape and diverse in color-one and all made from the same paste. And when men speak of some one's success, the lot of the man who has failed is not so very different as it seems. The inequalities in the world are like the combinations in a kaleidoscope; at every turn a fresh picture strikes the eye; and yet, in reality, you see only the same bits of glass as you saw before.

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If multiple paths are made from the same stuf, don’t be scared to live life as you wish, and it be for filling, thanks, Christopher thinks Schopenhauer

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Thank you!