If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUSGood 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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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