For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have 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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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 other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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