Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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