The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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