No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSWho would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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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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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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