Maxioms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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.
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.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
