Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUSOne’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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