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

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

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

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

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

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

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.