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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

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
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
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune

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