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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Boethius

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
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
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

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