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.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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