As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSThe 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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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