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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

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself 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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
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
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.
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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself

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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