Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSThe good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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