“Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”

“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”

“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”

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

“И тъй, не е за чудене, че в бурното море на живота ни блъскат силни ветрове, нас, на които преди всичко е писано да не се нравим на порочните хора.”

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

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”