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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Boethius

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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
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
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

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