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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.

Boethius

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

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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