Nothing is miserable unless you think it so..

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired..

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it..

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy..

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune..

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just..

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin..

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven..

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy..

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.).

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law..

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy..

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is sur….

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things..

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the….

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhapp….

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content..

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune..

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home..