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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

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.

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

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

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

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.