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  2. Felix culpa - Wikipedia

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    Felix culpa is a Latin phrase that comes from the words felix, meaning "happy," "lucky," or "blessed" and culpa, meaning "fault" or "fall". In the Catholic tradition, the phrase is most often translated "happy fault", as in the Catholic Exsultet. Other translations include "blessed fall" or "fortunate fall". [1]

  3. Fortuna - Wikipedia

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    Fortune crept back into popular acceptance, with a new iconographic trait, "two-faced Fortune", Fortuna bifrons; such depictions continue into the 15th century. [25] The ubiquitous image of the Wheel of Fortune found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond was a direct legacy of the second book of Boethius's Consolation.

  4. Sonnet 16 - Wikipedia

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    Also, "repair" can mean to make anew or newly father (re + père), which may be relevant. But as well, "lines of life" can mean the length of life, or the fate-lines found on the hand and face read by fortune-tellers. An artistic metaphor also arises in this sonnet, and "lines" can be read in this context. [2]

  5. The Fortunate Fall (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Fortunate Fall title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database; Review of The Fortunate Fall by Jo Walton; Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "Anatomy of a Sale: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall to Tor Books." In The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook, 2nd ed., ed. David Borcherding. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest ...

  6. Context Books - Wikipedia

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    Context Books was an American independent publishing house founded by Beau Friedlander that featured often controversial and critically acclaimed titles from authors such as Derrick Jensen, Daniel Quinn, David Means, and William Rivers Pitt which operated from 1998 to 2004.

  7. Tellus of Athens - Wikipedia

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    When Croesus, flaunting his immense wealth, inquired of Solon if he knew of anyone happier than himself, Solon responded with his now-famous adage, 'Call no man happy until he is dead.' In this context, he cited Tellus as an exemplar of happiness, and referenced Tellus as a noteworthy example of his philosophy. [1] To quote Herodotus: [2]

  8. Sonnet 92 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 92 follows directly on from sonnet 91, where the poet was happy in everything except that 'thou mayst take/ All this away'. But, sonnet 92 says, if the fair young man steals himself away, the poet's life will immediately end.

  9. Fortunata y Jacinta - Wikipedia

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    Fortunata y Jacinta (Fortunata and Jacinta), was written by Benito Pérez Galdós in 1887 and published in the same year. It is, together with Leopoldo Alas y Ureña's La Regenta (The Judge's Wife), one of the most popular and representative novels of Spanish literary realism.