Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUSWho would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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