Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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Love 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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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