He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUSHe 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.
BOETHIUSGive me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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?
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSWho would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSMusic is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUSAnd 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.
BOETHIUSLove 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.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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