I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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