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

Boethius

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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.
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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

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

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