A Quote by Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Boethius

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Boethius
Roman - Philosopher
480 - 525

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Boethius

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George Orwell

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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John Stuart Mill

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John Stuart Mill

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