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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.

Boethius

As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUS

Alone Deep Heaven Man
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUS

Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUS

Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUS

Avoid Goodness Necessary
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUS

Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUS

Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUS

Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS

Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUS

Eyes God Light Myself
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUS

Glory Home Men Respect
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUS

Attitude Music Ourselves
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
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS

Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice

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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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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