Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUSAnd 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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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 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 now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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