Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I — I — I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.
essays Of Schopenhauerby arthur Schopenhauer
The best works of great men all come from the time when they had to write either for nothing or for very little pay. This is confirmed by the Spanish proverb: honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in the same purse).
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.