No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSThe now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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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.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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