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

Boethius

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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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
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
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 man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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

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

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