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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

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; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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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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