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?
BOETHIUSA man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
More Boethius Quotes
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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