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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Boethius

One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
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
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
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
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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

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