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

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

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

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

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

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.