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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.

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUS

Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS

Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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

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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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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