As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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