“Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?”

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

“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.”

“As far as possible, join faith to reason.”

“One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.”