To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go
If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.
Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.