Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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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 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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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