Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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