We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Friends Quotes

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses

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.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human...

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human...

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...

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the...

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the...

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in...

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in...

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has...

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has...

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win...

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win...

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

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

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all...

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all...

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the...

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the...