Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSHe who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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