Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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