Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSHe who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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 happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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