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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Boethius

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 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
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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
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
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
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
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
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men

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