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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Boethius

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
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
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
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
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

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