Quote of Arthur Schopenhauer - The greatest of follies is to...

Biography - Arthur Schopenhauer:

German philosopher.
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotes about health:

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Health is the primary duty of life.”
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Karl Marx

health

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
Jean de La Bruyere

health

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Mark Twain

health

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Quotes about happiness:

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca - De Vita Beata

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

All about happiness...

Arthur Schopenhauer also said...

Change alone is the constant.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

change

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

destiny

For our improvement we need a mirror.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

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