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.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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