arthur schopenhauer

“ I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ”

“ There is only one inborn error, and that is, that we exist in order to be happy. ”

“ Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ”

“ The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ”

“ Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ”

“ After your death you will be what you were before your birth. ”

“ Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. ”

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

“ Music is the melody whose text is the world. ”

“ In the first place, no one is happy, but everyone throughout his life strives for an alleged happiness that is rarely attained, and even then only to disappoint him. ”