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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Boethius

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.
BOETHIUS

Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
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.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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.
BOETHIUS

Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars

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