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As far as possible, join faith to reason.

Boethius

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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