For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been 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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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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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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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 souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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