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Quotation from Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

“they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers”

Arthur Schopenhauer (spoken by Schopenhauer)

Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Human Nature', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897)

Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer

On the professions and public virtues people wear as disguises.

Citation: "they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers" — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Human Nature', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897). (id essays-and-aphorisms-q7)

Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.

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