Quotes with contrariwise

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• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

  Ethics

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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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.

  De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• contrariwise
• miserable
• rejoice
• therein
• because
• control

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