In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

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.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

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

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

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.