“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.”– Dalai Lama Related Quotes “It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”– W. Somerset Maugham “What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”– William Blake “Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”– George Eliot