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

Boethius

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
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
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
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself

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