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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security

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