In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUSGood 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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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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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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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