He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUSMan is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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