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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life

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