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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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