Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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.
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.
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
The good is the end toward which all things tend.