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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

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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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction

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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