Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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 adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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