Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUSLove 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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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