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

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

So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

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

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.

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