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.
BOETHIUSLove 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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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