In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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