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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.

Boethius

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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune

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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