Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUS
BOETHIUS
Boethius on freedom
Boethius42 quotes“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.”
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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.
BoethiusBoethius 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.
BoethiusBoethius 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.
BoethiusBoethius Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BoethiusBoethius In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BoethiusBoethius The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BoethiusBoethius Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BoethiusBoethius The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BoethiusBoethius The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BoethiusBoethius 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.
BoethiusBoethius In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BoethiusBoethius Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BoethiusBoethius 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.
BoethiusBoethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BoethiusBoethius Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BoethiusBoethius 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 saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
Earl WarrenEarl Warren There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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