Nothing Is Miserable Unless You Think It

All Fortune Is Good Fortune; For It Either Rewards, Disciplines, Amends, Or Punishes, And So Is Either Useful Or Just.

Nothing Is Miserable But What Is Thought So, And Contrariwise, Every Estate Is Happy If He That Bears It Be Content.

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.

Contemplate The Extent And Stability Of The Heavens, And Then At Last Cease To Admire Worthless Things.

Music Is Part Of Us, And Either Ennobles Or Degrades Our Behavior.