If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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