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  ...patience, especially the Spanish _sufrimiento_, is strongly connected with the notion of _suffering_. It is therefore a passive state, just as the opposite is an active state of the mind, with which, when great, patience is incompatible. It is the innate virtue of a phlegmatic, indolent, and spiritless people, as also of women. But that it is nevertheless so very useful and necessary is a sign that the world is very badly constituted.
* * * * * Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.  
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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If you want to find out your real opinion of anyone, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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The course of our individual life and the events in it, as far as their true meaning and connection is concerned, may be compared to a piece...   Schopenhauer, Arthur

Excerpt from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. · This quote is tagged Money · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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