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.

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

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

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?

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.