In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUSAnd 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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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