The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.