Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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