A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

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.

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.

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.

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

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