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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
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
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
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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Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
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
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
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Misery Sad Thinking Yourself

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