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

  Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher 480-525
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1. contrariwise
2. thought
3. content
4. happy
5. bears

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