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

Boethius

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
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Fortune Men Security
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Avoid Goodness Necessary
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
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
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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Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait 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
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
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy

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

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