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.
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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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