Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSThe now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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