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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

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
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
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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
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
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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