A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. - Arthur Schopenhauer

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.