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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Boethius

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
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
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
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
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
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

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