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.
BOETHIUSGood 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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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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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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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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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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