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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.

Boethius

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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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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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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 souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

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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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