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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Boethius

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself

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