Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.