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The good is the end toward which all things tend.

Boethius

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself 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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise

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