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.
BOETHIUSIn other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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