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Man Quotes by Boethius
- Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
- Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
- For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
- In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
- 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…
- No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
- A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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