A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUSLove 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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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.
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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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