For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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.
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.