Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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