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Counsels and Maxims

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Taking from Aristotle the principle that the wise man seeks freedom from pain rather than pleasure, Schopenhauer sets out rules for conduct: toward oneself, toward others, and toward fate. It is worldly, unillusioned advice of a kind almost no other philosopher has bothered to give.

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