Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
More Boethius Quotes
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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