For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer