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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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