So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

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