Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSWhose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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