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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Boethius

Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
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
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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