If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUS
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
More Boethius Quotes
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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