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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.

Boethius

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
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
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play

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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