Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

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

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)