Maxioms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can read more
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as read more
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
