Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

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

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

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