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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

Boethius

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
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
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself

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