A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUSIn other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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