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We cannot raise the question: How can there be evil if God exists? without raising the second: How can there be good if He exists not?

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

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

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

No man is rich who shakes and groans
Convinced that he needs more.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.