Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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