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.
BOETHIUSThe now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at 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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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