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 all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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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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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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