I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS
BOETHIUS
Boethius on knowledge
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BoethiusBoethius As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BoethiusBoethius 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?
BoethiusBoethius 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.
BoethiusBoethius Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BoethiusBoethius If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BoethiusBoethius If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BoethiusBoethius In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BoethiusBoethius 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.
BoethiusBoethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BoethiusBoethius No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BoethiusBoethius One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BoethiusBoethius Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BoethiusBoethius Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BoethiusBoethius All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BoethiusBoethius 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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