The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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