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

Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Forever Present Time
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
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
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
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Faith Possible Reason
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
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
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

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