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.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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