He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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