Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.