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

Boethius

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
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
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
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
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
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
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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 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
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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