Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

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

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

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.