He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

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

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

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

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

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

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.