Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

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.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

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

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

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

As far as possible, join faith to reason.