Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots! - Arthur Schopenhauer

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.