Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Stupid, Fire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong Women, Philosophical, Enemy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.65, Penguin UK

• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Regret, Missing, Enemy

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

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