It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Happiness is activity.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.