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.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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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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