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

Boethius

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
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
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
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
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason

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

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