Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
Arthur SchopenhauerLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur SchopenhauerNothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer