Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSMusic is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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