THE ESSAYS OF

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

By Arthur Schopenhauer

Translated By T. Bailey Saunders

COUNSELS AND MAXIMS.

  Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée: il est  très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible  de le trouver ailleurs.

Chamfort.

Contents

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. — GENERAL RULES.

SECTION 1.

SECTION 2. To estimate a man's condition in regard to happiness, it is

SECTION 3. Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life

CHAPTER II. — OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES.—

SECTION 4.

SECTION 5. Another important element in the wise conduct of life is to

SECTION 6. Limitations always make for happiness. We are happy in

SECTION 7. Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends,

SECTION 8. To live a life that shall be entirely prudent and discreet,

SECTION 9. To be self-sufficient, to be all in all to oneself, to

SECTION 10. Envy is natural to man; and still, it is at once a vice

SECTION 11. Give mature and repeated consideration to any plan before

SECTION 12.

SECTION 13. In all matters affecting our weal or woe, we should be

SECTION 14. The sight of things which do not belong to us is very apt

SECTION 15. The things which engage our attention—whether they are

SECTION 16. We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires,

SECTION 17. Life consists in movement, says Aristotle; and he is

SECTION 18. A man should avoid being led on by the phantoms of his

SECTION 19. The preceding rule may be taken as a special case of the

SECTION 20. In the first part of this work I have insisted upon the

CHAPTER III. — OUR RELATION TO OTHERS.—

SECTION 22. It is astonishing how easily and how quickly similarity,

SECTION 23. No man can see over his own hei