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by Alain De Botton


  55 Winter … endure: Epistulae Morales, CVII.7–9

  56 Quid … est: De Consolatione ad Marciam, xi.1

  Consolation for Inadequacy

  Quotations taken from:

  The Complete Essays

  , Michel de Montaigne, translated by M. A. Screech, Penguin, 1991. The notes refer firstly to the book number, then the essay number and lastly the page number.

  1 I … lettuces: II.17.741

  2 I … day: III.3.933

  3 splendid … views: III.3.933

  4 the … was: II.12.558

  5 strikingly … humour: II.10.463

  6 It … books: III.3.932

  7 There … vexation: II.12.544

  8 Man … [Cicero]: II.12.544

  9 the … shit: II.37.870

  10 Wherever … equinox: II.12.534

  11 If … length: II.534

  12 here … Trebizond?: II.12.517

  13 Dare … pig?: I.14.57

  14 We … excessive: II.12.541

  15 To … blockheads: III.13.219

  16 Our … behind: III.5.1005

  17 When … unapproachable: II.12.637

  18 then … soul: II.37.865

  19 That … them: I.21.115

  20 most … disorderly: I.21.116

  21 so … death: I.21.116

  22 [This] … it: III.5.994

  23 He … blindfolded: I.3.15

  24 The … being: III.13.1261

  25 Except … once: I.21.112

  26 admit … him: I.21.112

  27 [The … it: I.21.115

  28 to … offence: II.29.801

  29 If … all: I.21.115

  30 every … condition: III.2.908

  31 Au … cul: III.13.1269

  32 Les … aussi: III.13.1231

  33 The … teeth: III.5.956

  34 She … ditch: III.5.967

  35 old crone: III.5.967

  36 Had … naked: introductory note

  37 Every … complete: III.5.1004

  38 Everywhere … it!: III.5.992

  39 Of … disrupted: III.13.1232

  40 My … bed: III.13.1232

  41 When … wise: III.5.992

  42 What … power?: III.9.1119

  43 It … being: III.9.1121

  44 May … apart?: III.5.1010

  45 Once … clime: III.9.1114

  46 It … ours: III.13.1226

  47 Each … wonder: III.13.1226

  48 When … world’: I.26.176

  49 They … sauces: I.23.123

  50 scrupulously … cords: II.12.647

  51 gathered … cloth: I.23.125

  52 In … shoulders: II.12.538

  53 Their … wives: I.31.234

  54 One … valour: I.31.239

  55 We … bows: II.12.521

  56 Ah!… breeches …: I.31.241

  57 Every … anything!: I.31.231

  58 Defending … country: I.23.126

  59 The … nothing: II.12.558

  60 the … perspicuity: II.12.606

  61 that … itself: III.13.1220

  62 Anyone … heights: II.12.613

  63 In … fire: III.9.1110

  64 We … other: I.28.212

  65 What … found: I.28.211

  66 Luy … image: III.9.1112 (footnote)

  67 In … on: I.28.217

  68 painful … harm: p. 125, Montaigne’s Travel Journal, translated by Donald M. Frame, North Point Press, 1983

  69 Many … stall: III.9.1109

  70 If … life: II.12.543

  71 What … gout …?: II.12.542

  72 I … etymology: II.17.749

  73 We … empty: I.25.153–4

  74 At … all: II.17.730

  75 If … tennis: I.25.156

  76 I … feet: II.12.604

  77 Storming … lives: III.2.912

  78 About … face: II.29.800

  79 I … gardening: I.20.99

  80 I … lettuces: III.17.741

  81 It … capacities: III.5.971

  82 I … her: I.21.117

  83 If … shit!’: I.38.264

  84 The … being: III.13.1261

  85 I … rectors: II.12.542

  86 I … [them]: II.17.740

  87 I … interest: I.39.276

  88 I … another: II.10.459

  89 Difficulty … payment: II.12.566

  90 Just … Paris: I.26.194

  91 The … paraded: III.12.1173

  92 The … yourself: II.17.746

  93 … French: III.5.989

  94 … them: III.5.989

  95 Whenever … arse: I.25.155

  96 In … everything: I.26.170

  97 I … reputations: II.10.458 (my italics)

  98 No … born: Seneca, Consolation to Helvia, XV.4

  99 If … may: III.12.1196

  100 In … spread: III.2.912

  101 A … families: III.2.912

  102 We … do: I.25.154

  103 Invention … quotation: III.12. 1197

  104 Will … say?: II.10.465

  105 His … wind: II.10.464

  106 There … dearth: III.13.1212

  107 Were … man: III.13.1218

  108 We … us: III.12.1175

  109 You … stuff: III.2.908

  110 I … melons: III.13.1251

  111 I … again: III.13.1252

  112 My … meals: III.13.1250

  113 In … fingers: III.13.1255

  114 I … course: III.13.1230

  Consolation for a Broken Heart

  Quotations taken from:

  Parerga and Paralipomena

  , volumes

  I

  and

  II

  , Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. F. Payne, OUP, 1972 (abbreviated as P1 and P2)

  The World as Will and Representation

  , volumes

  I

  and

  II

  , Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. F. J. Payne, Dover Publications, 1966 (abbreviated as W1 and W2, followed by page number)

  Manuscript Remains

  (4 volumes), Arthur Schopenhauer, edited by A. Hübscher, Berg, 1988 (abbreviated as MR)

  Gesammelte Briefe

  , Arthur Schopenhauer, edited by A. Hübscher, Bonn, 1978 (abbreviated as GB)

  Gespräche

  , Arthur Schopenhauer, edited by A. Hübscher, Stuttgart, 1971 (abbreviated as G)

  Schopenhauer und die wilden Jahre der Philosophie

  , Rüdiger Safranski, Rowohlt, 1990

  1 We … nothingness: P2.XII.156

  2 Human … error: P2.XI.287

  3 It … happens: P2.XII.155

  4 Even … despair: MR4.2.121

  5 In … hand: MR4.2.36

  6 I … nation: Safranski, p. 74

  7 These … humans: Safranski, p. 78

  8 pondering … misery: Safranski, p. 48

  9 life … effort: G.15

  10 serene … ever!: Safranski, p. 267

  11 Young … man: GB.267

  12 Sometimes … self-deception: MR1.597

  13 A … monologues?: MR3.1.50

  14 We … weather: MR1.628

  15 I … me: G.239

  16 Only … sex: P2.XXVII.369

  17 Every … suffering: MR3.1.76

  18 If … me: MR3.1.26

  19 [I]ts … bedlamite: P1.3.144

  20 That … Pope: MR3.3.12

  21 To … other: MR4.7.50

  22 Of … one!: MR4.4.131

  23 any … like: GB.83

  24 a … society: GB.106

  25 If … heart: MR3.1.139

  26 How … hare-hunt: MR3.4.26

  27 After … misanthropy: P1.VI.482

  28 I … me: G.58

  29 Life … illusion: P2.XI.146

  30 a … approach: Safranski, p. 419

  31 The … heart: M14.7.25

  32 The … dogs: P2.XII.153

  33 comically … gruff: G.88

  34 common biped: Safranski, p. 422

  35 I … on: W2.30

 
36 the … people: W1.356

  37 Two … manner: Safranski, p. 427

  38 If … again: MR3.2.90

  39 Human … deal: W2.243

  40 Not … form: W, preface, 1844

  41 Our … how: P1.298

  42 the … fame: Safranski, p. 18

  43 Would … minds?: MR3.II.5

  44 suited … long: P2.614–26

  45 She … married: G.225

  46 I … shudder: MR4.7.102

  47 human … error: P2.XI.287

  48 We … material: W2.532

  49 Love … happiness: W2.533

  50 Why … it: W2.534

  51 What … come: W2.534

  52 [The … everything: W2.210

  53 [It] … will: W2.209

  54 The … individual: W2.536

  55 There … two: W2.549

  56 Everyone … produced: W2.546

  57 The … other: W2.546

  58 That … fortune: W2.558

  59 Love … interest: W2.555

  60 Has … heard: P2.XIV.166

  61 It … badly: W2.558

  62 The … present: W2.557

  63 What … children: W2.545

  64 between … itself: W2.536

  65 To … it: W2.354

  66 Contemplate … exertions: W2.353

  67 There … disappointment: W2.634

  68 What … them: P1.VI.480

  69 The … life: W2.427

  70 ‘Lotte … you!’: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe, translated by Michael Hulse, Penguin, 1989, p. 115

  71 The … thousands: P2.XIX.208

  72 In … sufferer: W1.206

  Consolation for Difficulties

  Quotations taken from:

  Daybreak

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, CUP, 1997 (abbreviated as D)

  Ecce Homo

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1979 (abbreviated as EH)

  Beyond Good and Evil

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1973 (abbreviated as BGE)

  Human, All Too Human

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, CUP, 1996 (abbreviated as HAH)

  Wanderer and His Shadow

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale and collected in HAH (Ibid.), CUP, 1996 (abbreviated as WS)

  Untimely Meditations

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, CUP, 1997 (abbreviated as UM)

  The Anti-Christ

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale and collected in

  Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ

  , Penguin, 1990 (abbreviated as AC)

  The Will to Power

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann & R. J. Hollingdale, Vintage, 1968 (abbreviated as WP)

  The Gay Science

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1974 (abbreviated as GS)

  Twilight of the Idols

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Duncan Large, OUP, 1998 (abbreviated as TI)

  On the Genealogy of Morality

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Carol Diethe, CUP, 1996 (abbreviated as GM)

  Sämtliche Briefe: Kritische Studienausgabe

  , Friedrich Nietzsche, 8 volumes, DTV and de Gruyter, 1975–84 (abbreviated as Letter to/from followed by day/month/year)

  1 cabbage-heads: EH. 3.5

  2 It … being: EH. 14.1

  3 I … holy: EH. 14.1

  4 Let … 2000: Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, 24/9/86

  5 It … boots: EH. 3.1

  6 You … been!: BGE. 225

  7 To … vanquished: WP. 910

  8 the … given: EH. Foreword, 4

  9 In … treated: D. 381

  10 I … resignation: from Rückblick auf meine zwei Leipziger Jahre, III.133, Werke, Karl Schlechta Edition

  11 The … pleasure: Schopenhauer, W2.150

  12 [We … mental: Schopenhauer, P1.V.a.1

  13 we … abstinence: Letter to his mother and sister, 5/11/65

  14 I … joy: Letter from Malwida von Meysenbug, 28/10/76

  15 The … boring: TI. X.2

  16 These … hitherto: EH. 2.10

  17 Would … side: Letter to Cosima Wagner, 19/12/76

  18 in … room: Schopenhauer, P1.V.a.1

  19 hidden … deer: GS. 283

  20 that … goose: Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, early May 1884

  21 Really … Montaigne: Letter to his mother, 3/21/85

  22 gentle … eggs: D. 553

  23 magnificent: TI.IX.49

  24 the … reverence: TI. IX.51

  25 He … will: TI. IX.49

  26 The … profound: Stendhal, Voyages en France, Pleiade, p. 365

  27 The … copulation: Montaigne, Essays, III.5.968

  28 the … frightened: Stendhal, Oeuvres Intimes, Volume I, Pleiade, p. 483

  29 Art … life: TI. IX.24

  30 What … joy: GS. 12

  31 Examine … possible: GS. 19

  32 The … world: HAH. I.163 (my italics)

  33 He … mountains: EH. Foreword, 3

  34 We … sense: GM. II.24

  35 In … tomorrow: HAH. II.358

  36 To … comprehensible!: UM. III.5

  37 I … Swiss!: Letter to his mother, 19/7/70

  38 I … own: Letter to Paul Rée, end of July 1879

  39 This … myself: Letter to Peter Gast, 14/8/81

  40 I … ground: Letter to Carl von Gersdorff, 28/6/83

  41 How … books?: WS. 324

  42 Only … value: TI. I.34

  43 When … humanity: HAH. I.246

  44 We … life: Montaigne, Essays, III.13.1237

  45 If … manure: HAH. II.332

  46 Don’t … whole: HAH. I.163

  47 You … strain: Letter to his mother, 21/7/79

  48 One … trellis: D. 560

  49 the … sui: TI. III.4

  50 good … things: BGE. 2

  51 Love … together: WP. 351

  52 The … life: BGE. 23

  53 The … culture: WP. 1025

  54 Nothing … annihilation: HAH. II.220

  55 All … hurting: TI. v.1

  56 Dear … afternoon: Letter to his mother, 16/4/63

  57 I … materialism: Letter to Carl von Gersdorff, 25/4/65

  58 Alcoholic … live: EH. 2.1

  59 How … intelligence!: TI. VIII.2

  60 Perhaps … Europe: GS. III.134

  61 I … suffices: EH. 2.1

  62 If … together: GS. 338

  63 [A]ctions … pleasure: Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill, Chapter 2, paragraph 2, Penguin, 1994

  64 European … England: BGE. 253

  65 Man … that: TI. I.9

  66 All … derision: BGE. 225

  67 The … Vesuvius!: GS. 283

  68 To … absurdity: EH. 2.1

  69 He … pastor … guide: III.93. Werke, Karl Schlechta Edition

  70 I … depravity: AC. 62

  71 One … governor: AC. 46

  72 It … today: AC. 38

  73 The … Christianity: TI. VIII.2

  74 not- … -revenge: GM. I.14

  75 a … accomplishment: GM. I.13

  76 the … comfortableness: GS. 338

  77 the … antiquity: WS. 7

  78 one … philosophizing: WS. 295

  79 It … like-minded: Letter to Paul Deussen, ?/2/70

  80 Do … thinking?: Letter to Mathilde Trempedach, 11/4/76

  81 He … opera: Diary, Cosima Wagner, 4/4/74

  82 The … time: Letter from Hans von Bülow, 24/7/72

  83 You … is: Letter from Hans von Bülow, 24/7/72

  84 For … woman!: Letter from Richard Wagner, 26/12/74

  85 Ariadne … you: Postcard to Cosima Wagner, ?/1/89

  86 Thanks … ‘me’: Letter to Franz Overbeck, late March or early April 1886

  87 I … learn!: Letter to Lou Salomé, 2/7/82

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nbsp; 88 My … me: Letter to Franz Overbeck, 25/12/82

  89 I … them: Letter to Franz Overbeck, ?/3/83

  90 scraped … sheep: Letter to his mother, 4/10/84

  91 As … time: Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, 14/1/80

  92 Constant … music!: Letter to Doctor Otto Eiser, ?/1/80

  93 for … woman: HAH. I.384

  94 Early … vicious!: EH. 2.8

  95 no … denies: TI. IX.49

  96 The … complaint: D. 52 (my italics)

  97 To … weather: EH. 14.4

  Acknowledgments

  I am much indebted to the following authorities for their comments on chapters of this book: Dr Robin Waterfield (for Socrates), Professor David Sedley (for Epicurus), Professor Martin Ferguson Smith (for Epicurus), Professor C. D. N. Costa (for Seneca), the Reverend Professor Michael Screech (for Montaigne), Reg Hollingdale (for Schopenhauer) and Dr Duncan Large (for Nietzsche). I am also greatly indebted to the following for their comments: John Armstrong, Harriet Braun, Michele Hutchison, Noga Arikha and Miriam Gross. I would like to thank: Simon Prosser, Lesley Shaw, Helen Fraser, Michael Lynton, Juliet Annan, Gráinne Kelly, Anna Kobryn, Caroline Dawnay, Annabel Hardman, Miriam Berkeley, Chloe Chancellor, Lisabel McDonald, Kim Witherspoon and Dan Frank.

  Copyright Acknowledgments

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for permission to reproduce extracts from previously published material:

  Cambridge University Press: Human All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, 1996; and On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Carol Diethe, 1996; Dover Publications: World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. Duncan Large, 1988; Oxford University Press: extracts reprinted from Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Duncan Large (Oxford World’s Classics, 1998), by permission of Oxford University Press; extracts reprinted from Parerga and Paralipomena, Arthur Schopenhauer, (volumes I and II, trans. E. F. Payne, 1974) by permission of Oxford University Press; Penguin Books: Early Socratic Dialogues, Plato, trans. Iain Lane, 1987; The Last Days of Socrates, Plato, trans. Hugh Tredennick, 1987; Protagoras and Meno, Plato, trans. W. K. C. Guthrie, 1987; Dialogues and Letters, Seneca, trans. C. D. N. Costa, 1997; Letters from a Stoic, Seneca, trans. Robin Campbell, 1969; The Complete Essays, Michel de Montaigne, trans. M. A. Screech, 1991; Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, 1996; and Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, 1979; Random House, Inc.: extracts from The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. Copyright © 1967 by Walter Kaufmann. Extracts from The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann. Copyright © 1974 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

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