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Counsels and Maxims (Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, tr. T. Bailey Saunders)

Arthur Schopenhauer · c. 1851

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The safest way not to be very miserable is not to expect to be very happy

Their wordsFor the safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

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    The safest way not to be very miserable is not to expect to be very happy

    Their wordsFor the safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

  2. Our reading

    The present is the only time that is fully real, and existence lies in it alone

    Their wordsThe present alone is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.

  3. Our reading

    People should sometimes look at their possessions as they would appear if they had lost them

    Their wordsWhat I mean is that we should sometimes try to look upon our possessions in the light in which they would appear if we had lost them; whatever they may be, property, health, friends, a wife or child or someone else we love, our horse or our dog—it is usually only when we have lost them that we begin to find out their value.

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