One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUSLove 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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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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 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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