In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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