If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUSLove 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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I 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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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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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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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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