If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUSAnd 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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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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