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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

Boethius

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
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
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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
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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