"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience,
which always recurs."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
— Francis Bacon

"a nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."
— Nietzsche

"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to
mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even
if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot
of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing
generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment,
that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly
stuck to its work through the course of a long life.

preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation""
— schopenhauer