A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUSAnd 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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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