Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

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.

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.