As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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