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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.