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.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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 … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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