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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
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
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
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
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
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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
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

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