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

Boethius

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
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
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

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