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.
BOETHIUSThe now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
More Boethius Quotes
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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You 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.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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