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 surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

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

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

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

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

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

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