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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

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
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
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
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
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
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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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom

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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