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?
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?
BOETHIUSMan is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSMusic is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSSo 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.
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUSThe completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUSLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUSWhose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUSIn other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUSYou 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.
BOETHIUSGive me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
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.
BOETHIUSAll fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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