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 SchopenhauerThere is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur SchopenhauerA happy life is imposยญsiยญble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
Arthur Schopenhauer