No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSGood 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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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