Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUSHe who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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