In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse — until at last the worst of all arrives.