Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSAll fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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