Arthur Schopenhauer — "The pleasure of life is fleeting; the pain of life is lasting."

"We often find that people are most insolent and arrogant where they have least reason to be so."

"The greatest pleasure is to do what people say you cannot do."

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason, would the human race exist? Would not everyone rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of ex…"

"The world is a spectacle for the gods."

"Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one o…"