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

Boethius

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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
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
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
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 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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself

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