In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUSWhose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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