Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUS
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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