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.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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

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

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

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