All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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