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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Boethius

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
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
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

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