The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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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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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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