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

Boethius

The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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
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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune

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