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

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

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

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

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.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.