I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

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.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

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