As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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 now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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