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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.

Boethius

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

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
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.
BOETHIUS

Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
BOETHIUS

Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Men Security
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUS

End Goodness Philosophy
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUS

Glory Home Men Respect
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUS

Fortune Happiness Oneself
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUS

Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUS

Establishment Happiness Life
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUS

Eyes God Light Myself
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUS

Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUS

Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS

Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
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.
BOETHIUS

Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.

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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.

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