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?
BOETHIUSThe science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
More Boethius Quotes
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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