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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Boethius

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
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
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

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