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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

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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
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 completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

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