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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

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
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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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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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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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
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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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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