He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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You 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.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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