One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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So 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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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