Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.