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.....For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties. And still men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.
..........— Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher. The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays, translated by Bailey Saunders and Ernest Belford Bax (M. Walter Dunne, publisher, 1901), "Wisdom of Life," Chapter 1: "Division of the Subject."
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