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.

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

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

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

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

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?

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