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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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