Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSThe 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.
More Boethius Quotes
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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 happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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