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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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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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