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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Boethius

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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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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Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
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
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
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

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