Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUSLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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