The Wisdom of Life (Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)

by Arthur Schopenhauer

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

To be happy means to be self-sufficient.

there are no real pleasures without real needs;

We have only two days to live; it is not worth our while to spend them in cringing to contemptible rascals.