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.
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
More Boethius Quotes
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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The 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.
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