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?
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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