Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUSMusic is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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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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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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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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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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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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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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You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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