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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

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.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

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

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