We should learn to become better friends with ourselves. ‘All our unhappiness comes from our inability to sit alone in our room.’

‘What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.’ - Seneca.

‘Kings and Philosophers shit, and so do ladies’. This is a blunt phrase of 16th-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne.

St Augustine was deeply interested in finding explanations for the evident tragic disorder of the world.

'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' - Immanuel Kant