The feeling of self-sufficiency! It is that which restrains those whose personal value is in itself great riches, from such considerable sacrifices as are demanded by intercourse with the world. ... Ordinary people are sociable and complaisant just from the very opposite feeling;—to bear others’ company is easier for them than to bear their own.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The feeling of self-sufficiency! It is that which restrains those whose personal value is in itself great riches, from such considerable sacrifices as are demanded by intercourse with the world. ... Ordinary people are sociable and complaisant just from the very opposite feeling;—to bear others’ company is easier for them than to bear their own." in the context of "Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, T. B. Saunders, trans., § 9" to mean that wisdom is timeless.