In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUSFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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