"No doubt, when modesty was made a..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.”

“Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!”

“It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.”

“And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.”

“Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.”

“The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.”

“Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.”

“He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.”

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”