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

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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
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
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom

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

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