The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSIf there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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 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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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