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

Boethius

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
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Attitude Music Ourselves
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
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
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
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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Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
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
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
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
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
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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Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Eyes God Light Myself

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