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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.

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
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
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
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
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
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
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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.
BOETHIUS

Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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

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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