Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSSo 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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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 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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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