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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.

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