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

Boethius

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
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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
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
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection

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

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