No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSGood 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?
More Boethius Quotes
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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