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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

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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
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
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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect

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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