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 unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

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

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

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 mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

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

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

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