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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 unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
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
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
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

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