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?
BOETHIUSYou 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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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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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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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