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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.

Boethius

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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery

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