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.
BOETHIUSMusic is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
More Boethius Quotes
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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So 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.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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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 anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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