Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## THE ART OF LITERATURE ## COUNSELS AND MAXIMS ## THE ART OF CONTROVERSY ## STUDIES IN PESSIMISM ## ON HUMAN NATURE ## THE WISDOM OF LIFE ## RELIGION, A DIALOGUE, ETC. ## ESSAYS OF SCHOPENHAUER ## THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA (Vol. 1 of 3) ## THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA (Vol. 2 of 3) ## THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA (Vol. 3 of 3) ## THE BASIS OF MORALITY ## SUFFICIENT REASON, and, ON THE WILL IN NATURE TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: THE ART OF LITERATURE Arthur Schopenhauer Translated By T. Bailey Saunders CONTENTS THE ART OF LITERATURE. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. ON AUTHORSHIP. ON STYLE. ON THE STUDY OF LATIN. ON MEN OF LEARNING. ON THINKING FOR ONESELF. ON CRITICISM. ON REPUTATION. ON GENIUS. THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: COUNSELS AND MAXIMS By Arthur Schopenhauer Translated By T. Bailey Saunders CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. � GENERAL RULES. SECTION 1. SECTION 2. To estimate a man's condition in regard to happiness, it is SECTION 3. Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life CHAPTER II. � OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES.� SECTION 4. SECTION 5. Another important element in the wise conduct of life is to SECTION 6. Limitations always make for happiness. We are happy in SECTION 7. Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, SECTION 8. To live a life that shall be entirely prudent and discreet, SECTION 9. To be self-sufficient, to be all in all to oneself, to SECTION 10. Envy is natural to man; and still, it is at once a vice SECTION 11. Give mature and repeated consideration to any plan before SECTION 12. SECTION 13. In all matters affecting our weal or woe, we should be SECTION 14. The sight of things which do not belong to us is very apt SECTION 15. The things which engage our attention�whether they are SECTION 16. We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, SECTION 17. Life consists in movement, says Aristotle; and he is SECTION 18. A man should avoid being led on by the phantoms of his SECTION 19. The preceding rule may be taken as a special case of the SECTION 20. In the first part of this work I have insisted upon the CHAPTER III. � OUR RELATION TO OTHERS.� SECTION 22. It is astonishing how easily and how quickly similarity, SECTION 23. No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what SECTION 24. I feel respect for the man�and he is one in a SECTION 25. La Rochefoucauld makes the striking remark that it is SECTION 26. Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really SECTION 27. When any wrong statement is made, whether in public or SECTION 28. Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they SECTION 29. It is often the case that people of noble character and SECTION 30. No man is so formed that he can be left entirely to SECTION 31.