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As far as possible, join faith to reason.

Boethius

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
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
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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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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
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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