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1 " In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world! "
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Works of Arthur Schopenhauer
2 " Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns. "
3 " He who has lost all hope has also lost all fear; "
4 " Better alone than amongst traitors. "
5 " As Epictetus says, Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things. "
6 " Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself-so long as other people leave him alone.] "
7 " Behind the cross stands the devil. "
8 " The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; "
9 " The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity. "
10 " For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right. "
11 " I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling. "
12 " To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life. "
13 " For as a rule a man must have worth in himself in order to recognise it and believe in it willingly and freely in others. "
14 " The life of a fool is worse than death[1]. "
15 " Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason. "
16 " She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men "
17 " Every State looks upon its neighbours as at bottom a horde of robbers, who will fall upon it as soon as they have the opportunity. "
18 " Seneca[1] rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,-the readier he is with his tongue. "
19 " purse-honora y provecho no caben en un saco. "
