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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

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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
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 now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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

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

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

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