Arthur Schopenhauer, 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860. (At right: The young German philosopher who never married. Said he: "Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties")

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Compassion is the basis of morality."