provecho

Updated: May 17, 2025

And here, too, that Spanish proverb holds good, which declares that honor and money are not to be found in the same purse honora y provecho no caben en un saco. The reason why Literature is in such a bad plight nowadays is simply and solely that people write books to make money. A man who is in want sits down and writes a book, and the public is stupid enough to buy it.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature