If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUSYou 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.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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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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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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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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