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

Boethius

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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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.
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

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