One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUSWho would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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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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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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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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