Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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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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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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