Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUSIn every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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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.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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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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