Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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.