So Nothing Is Ever Good Or Bad

No Man Can Ever Be Secure Until He Has Been Forsaken By Fortune.

A Person Is An Individual Substance Of A Rational Nature.

One's Virtue Is All That One Truly Has, Because It Is Not Imperiled By The Vicissitudes Of Fortune.

If There Is Anything Good About Nobility It Is That It Enforces The Necessity Of Avoiding Degeneracy.

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.