Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSLove 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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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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 so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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