In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

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

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

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