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Counsels and Maxims

185119th-century German philosophyModern (1800 – 1950)Arthur SchopenhauerBook

Practical advice on living well, part of the 'Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life' in Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena (1851). T. Bailey Saunders published it in English under this title.

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“The present alone is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims (from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851), ch. II, §5, tr. T. Bailey Saunders
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Be present: the here and now is where life happens.Translation: public-domain translation (T. Bailey Saunders)
“we should sometimes try to look upon our possessions in the light in which they would appear if we had lost them”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims (from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851), ch. II, §14, tr. T. Bailey Saunders
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Give thanks.Translation: public-domain translation (T. Bailey Saunders)