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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.

Boethius

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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
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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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
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
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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
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
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

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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