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

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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

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

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

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

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 sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.