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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Boethius

One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
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
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS

Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS

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.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUS

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

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS

Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUS

Excellence Himself Men

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