A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUSFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
More Boethius Quotes
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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 is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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