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

Boethius

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
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
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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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself

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