Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played in… - Arthur Schopenhauer

الطبيب يشاهد كل الضعف البشري، والمحامي كل الشر، ورجل الدين كل الغباء

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.

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy... So long as we persist in this inborn error... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in things great and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of what is called disappointment.