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

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
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
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking

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