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

Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself

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