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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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

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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