“It is less hurtful to take the chances of misfortune as a theme for speculation because in doing so, we provide ourselves at once with measures of precaution against it and a pleasant surprise when it fails to make its appearance.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Anticipation
“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Anticipation