The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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