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.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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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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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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