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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Boethius

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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Good 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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
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
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
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
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
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

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