As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSGood 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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by 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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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