So Nothing Is Ever Good Or Bad

And No Renown Can Render You Well-known: For If You Think That Fame Can Lengthen Life By Mortal Famousness Immortalized, The Day Will Come That Takes Your Fame As Well, And There A Second Death For You Awaits.

He Who Has Calmly Reconciled His Life To Fate ... Can Look Fortune In The Face.

He Who Is Virtuous Is Wise; And He Who Is Wise Is Good; And He Who Is Good Is Happy.

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.

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.