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.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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