Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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 other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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