Arthur schopenhauer

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

There 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...

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and...

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are...

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.