For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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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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