"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”

“First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.”

“To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.”

“He only is rich who owns the day.”

“Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?”

“The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.”

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]”

“I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.”