Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Arthur SchopenhauerA man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur SchopenhauerAs the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.
Arthur Schopenhauer