The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

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Title: Counsels and Maxims From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Release Date: January 14, 2004 [EBook #10715]
Language: English
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THE ESSAYS
OF
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
TRANSLATED BY
T. BAILEY SAUNDERS, M.A.COUNSELS AND MAXIMS.
Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée: il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs.
CHAMFORT.CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL RULES II. OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES III. OUR RELATION TO OTHERS IV. WORLDLY FORTUNE V. THE AGES OF LIFEINTRODUCTION.
If my object in these pages were to present a complete scheme of counsels and maxims for the guidance of life, I should
have to repeat the numerous rules—some of them excellent—which have been drawn up by thinkers of all ages, from
Theognis and Solomon[1] down to La Rochefoucauld; and, in so doing, I should inevitably entail upon the reader a vast
amount of well-worn commonplace. But the fact is that in this work I make still less claim to exhaust my subject than in ...