Arthur Schopenhauer — "The only truly happy people are children and idiots."

"The greatest mistake a man can make is to fall in love with a woman."

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

"Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our childhood, for the simple reason that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, are big children all th…"

"Life is a constant oscillation between the pain of wanting and the boredom of having."

"The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it."