Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

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

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

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