To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than...

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than...

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something...

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something...

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask...

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask...

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of...

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of...

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of...

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of...

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

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

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

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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

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

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a...

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a...

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner,...

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner,...

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows...

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows...

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

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

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite...

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite...

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his...

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his...

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the...

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the...