"(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.”

“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

“To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.”

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”

“When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.”

“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.”

“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”

“Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.”