"No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune."
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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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"The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment."
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"Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things."
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"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven."
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"For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy."
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"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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"Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home."
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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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"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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"Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)"
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"As far as possible, join faith to reason."
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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself."
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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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"If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy."
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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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"The good is the end toward which all things tend."
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"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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"...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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