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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Boethius

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

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