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

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

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 top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

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

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

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

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