If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy

Console thyself, thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou hadst not found Me

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.