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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
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 other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been 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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