I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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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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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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