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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Boethius

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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Love 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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

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