Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.
— Arthur Schopenhauer Modern

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From 'Parerga and Paralipomena'

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1851

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Strange & Unusual

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