He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

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.

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

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

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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