The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

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Author

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860

Title

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

Credits

Etext produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML file produced by David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

Subject

Maxims

Category

Text

eBook-No.

10715

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10715

Release Date

January 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
2. 2.By Arthur Schopenhauer — Translated By T. Bailey Saunders — COUNSELS AND MAXIMS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — GENERAL RULES.
5. 5.SECTION 1.
6. 6.SECTION 2. To estimate a man's condition in regard to happiness, it is
7. 7.SECTION 3. Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES.—
9. 9.SECTION 4.
10. 10.SECTION 5. Another important element in the wise conduct of life is to
11. 11.SECTION 6. Limitations always make for happiness . We are happy in
12. 12.SECTION 7. Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends,
13. 13.SECTION 8. To live a life that shall be entirely prudent and discreet,
14. 14.SECTION 9. To be self-sufficient, to be all in all to oneself, to
15. 15.SECTION 10. Envy is natural to man; and still, it is at once a vice
16. 16.SECTION 11. Give mature and repeated consideration to any plan before
17. 17.SECTION 12.
18. 18.SECTION 13. In all matters affecting our weal or woe, we should be
19. 19.SECTION 14. The sight of things which do not belong to us is very apt
20. 20.SECTION 15. The things which engage our attention—whether they are
21. 21.SECTION 16. We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires,
22. 22.SECTION 17. Life consists in movement, says Aristotle; and he is
23. 23.SECTION 18. A man should avoid being led on by the phantoms of his
24. 24.SECTION 19. The preceding rule may be taken as a special case of the
25. 25.SECTION 20. In the first part of this work I have insisted upon the
26. 26.CHAPTER III. — OUR RELATION TO OTHERS.—
27. 27.SECTION 22. It is astonishing how easily and how quickly similarity,
28. 28.SECTION 23. No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what
29. 29.SECTION 24. I feel respect for the man—and he is one in a
30. 30.SECTION 25. La Rochefoucauld makes the striking remark that it is
31. 31.SECTION 26. Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really
32. 32.SECTION 27. When any wrong statement is made, whether in public or
33. 33.SECTION 28. Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they
34. 34.SECTION 29. It is often the case that people of noble character and
35. 35.SECTION 30. No man is so formed that he can be left entirely to — Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret .
36. 36.SECTION 31. A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it,
37. 37.SECTION 32. When he is young, a man of noble character fancies that
38. 38.SECTION 33. As paper-money circulates in the world instead of real
39. 39.SECTION 34. A man must be still a greenhorn in the ways of the
40. 40.SECTION 35. Our trust in other people often consists in great measure
41. 41.SECTION 36. Politeness ,—which the Chinese hold to be a cardinal
42. 42.SECTION 37. You ought never to take any man as a model for what you
43. 43.SECTION 38. Never combat any man's opinion; for though you reached the
44. 44.SECTION 39. If you want your judgment to be accepted, express it
45. 45.SECTION 40. Even when you are fully justified in praising yourself,
46. 46.SECTION 41. If you have reason to suspect that a person is telling you
47. 47.SECTION 42. You should regard all your private affairs as secrets,
48. 48.SECTION 43. Money is never spent to so much advantage as when you have
49. 49.SECTION 44. If possible, no animosity should be felt for anyone. But
50. 50.SECTION 45. To speak angrily to a person, to show your hatred by
51. 51.SECTION 46. To speak without emphasizing your words—parler sans
52. 52.CHAPTER IV. — WORLDLY FORTUNE.—
53. 53.SECTION 48. An ancient writer says, very truly, that there are three
54. 54.SECTION 49. That Time works great changes, and that all things are
55. 55.SECTION 50. In the daily affairs of life, you will have very many
56. 56.SECTION 51. Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great
57. 57.SECTION 52. What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule,
58. 58.SECTION 53. Courage comes next to prudence as a quality of mind very
59. 59.CHAPTER V. — THE AGES OF LIFE.

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