For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUSSo 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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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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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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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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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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