In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was 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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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