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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Boethius

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

Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS

Deep Law Love Wisdom
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.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
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
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.
BOETHIUS

Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
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?
BOETHIUS

Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUS

Establishment Happiness Life
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUS

Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUS

Alone Deep Heaven Man
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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.
BOETHIUS

Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUS

Glory Home Men Respect

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

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