Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
5 quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer (died 1860), taken from 2 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims.
The Wisdom of Life
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“Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.”
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“Cheerfulness is a direct and immediate gain, the very coin, as it were, of happiness, and not, like all else, merely a cheque upon the bank; for it alone makes us immediately happy in the present moment”
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“The man who is cheerful and merry has always a good reason for being so, the fact, namely, that he is so.”
Counsels and Maxims
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth”
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“It is the height of folly to refuse the present hour of happiness, or wantonly to spoil it by vexation at by-gones or uneasiness about what is to come.”