Arthur Schopenhauer on Ethics
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #227697: "No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one."
Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #171179: "Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company."
3 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer on Ethics
"No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one."
"Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company."
"Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular."