Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur SchopenhauerLife to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
Arthur SchopenhauerNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer