A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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