Arthur Schopenhauer

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. ”

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ”

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. ”

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. ”

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. ”

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ”

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ”

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

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. ”

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ”