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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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