Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSA person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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