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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.

Boethius

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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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
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 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
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward

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