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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Boethius

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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

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