489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
The History of Literature
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The Importance of Consolation in Misfortune
Chopinhauer: The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself. Schopenhauer: In our good days we are all unconscious of the evil fate may have presently in store for us, sickness, poverty, mutilation, loss of sight or reason. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it? There are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned not to death, but to their sentence means. Nevertheless, every man desires to reach old age - life of which it may be said, is bad today and it will
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