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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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves

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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