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Teachers of Wisdom: Arthur Schopenhauer
"I wish someone would one day attempt a tragic history of literature, showing how the various nations which now take their highest pride in the great writers and artists they can show treated them while they were alive. In such a history, the author would bring visibly before us that endless struggle which the good and genuine of all ages and all lands has to endure against the always dominant bad and wrong-headed: depict the martyrdom of almost every genuine enlightener of mankind, almost every great master of every art: show us how, with a few exceptions, they lived tormented lives in poverty and wretchedness, without recognition, without sympathy, without disciples, while fame, honor and riches went to the unworthy."
Paragraph 18 - "Essays and Aphorisms"
