Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSNothing 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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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