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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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