Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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