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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at 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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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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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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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