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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

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
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
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
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

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

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