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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Boethius

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
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
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
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

One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

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