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If you would give every man as he deserves, then love the good and pity those who are evil.

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Vis aptam meritis uicem referre:
Dilige iure bonos et miseresce malis.

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Poem IV, lines 11-12; translation by Richard H. Green

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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

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Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?

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