An idea from The Consolation of Philosophy

Everyone has some complaint, like money without family or family without money. The place an exile hates is home to the people born there, since “nothing is wretched, but thinking makes it so.” Philosophy places happiness inside a person, out of Fortune’s reach.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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