Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSAnd 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.
More Boethius Quotes
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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