Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
BOETHIUSMusic is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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 … can look fortune in the face.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was 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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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