The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other….

The good is the end toward which all things tend..

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegia….

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; hi….

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face..

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the….

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear ….

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself..

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior..

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?.

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, ….

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy….

As far as possible, join faith to reason..

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment..

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice..

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity..

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy..

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when y….

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature..

So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls ar….