No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSA person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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.
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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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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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