A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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 every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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