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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Boethius

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
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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 souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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