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The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (translated)
By Arthur Schopenhauer
Length4h 54m
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If my goal in these pages were to present a comprehensive set of advice and maxims to guide life, I would have to repeat the numerous rules, some of them excellent, that have been elaborated by thinkers of all ages, from Theognis and Solomon 1 to La Rochefoucauld; and in doing so, I would inevitably impose on the reader a great deal of trite and hackneyed platitudes. But the fact is that in this work I claim even less to exhaust the subject than in any of my other writings.
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Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION.
2CHAPTER I. - GENERAL RULES.
3SECTION 1.
4SECTION 2. To estimate a man's condition in regard to happiness, it is
5SECTION 3. Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life
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6CHAPTER II. - OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES.
7SECTION 4.
8SECTION 5. Another important element in the wise conduct of life is to
9SECTION 6. Limitations always make for happiness. We are happy in
10SECTION 7. Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends,
11SECTION 8. To live a life that shall be entirely prudent and discreet,
12SECTION 9. To be self-sufficient, to be all in all to oneself, to
13SECTION 11. Give mature and repeated consideration to any plan before
14SECTION 12.
15SECTION 13. In all matters affecting our weal or woe, we should be
16SECTION 14. The sight of things which do not belong to us is very apt
17SECTION 15. The things which engage our attention—whether they are
18SECTION 16. We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires,
19SECTION 17. Life consists in movement, says Aristotle; and he is
20SECTION 18. A man should avoid being led on by the phantoms of his
21SECTION 19. The preceding rule may be taken as a special case of the
22SECTION 20. In the first part of this work I have insisted upon the
23CHAPTER III. - OUR RELATION TO OTHERS.
24SECTION 22. It is astonishing how easily and how quickly similarity,
25SECTION 23. No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what
26SECTION 24. I feel respect for the man—and he is one in a
27SECTION 25. La Rochefoucauld makes the striking remark that it is
28SECTION 26. Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really
29SECTION 27. When any wrong statement is made, whether in public or
30SECTION 28. Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they
31SECTION 29. It is often the case that people of noble character and
32SECTION 30. No man is so formed that he can be left entirely to
33SECTION 31. A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it,
34SECTION 32. When he is young, a man of noble character fancies that
35SECTION 33. As paper-money circulates in the world instead of real
36SECTION 34. A man must be still a greenhorn in the ways of the
37SECTION 35. Our trust in other people often consists in great measure
38SECTION 37. You ought never to take any man as a model for what you
39SECTION 38. Never combat any man's opinion; for though you reached the
40SECTION 39. If you want your judgment to be accepted, express it
41SECTION 40. Even when you are fully justified in praising yourself,
42SECTION 41. If you have reason to suspect that a person is telling you
43SECTION 42. You should regard all your private affairs as secrets,
44SECTION 43. Money is never spent to so much advantage as when you have
45SECTION 44. If possible, no animosity should be felt for anyone. But
46SECTION 45. To speak angrily to a person, to show your hatred by
47SECTION 46. To speak without emphasizing your words—parler sans
48CHAPTER IV. - WORLDLY FORTUNE.
49SECTION 48. An ancient writer says, very truly, that there are three
50SECTION 49. That Time works great changes, and that all things are
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