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The good is the end toward which all things tend.

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Freedom Music Nature Unity
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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Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Deep Evil God Goodness Philosophy
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself
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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Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
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, 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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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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Fortune Happiness Oneself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
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
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

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