The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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