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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Boethius

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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Fortune Happiness Oneself
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

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