For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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 unless you think it so.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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