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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 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
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS

Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
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.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUS

Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise

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