For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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