Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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 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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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