The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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