Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUSThe 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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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