Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSLove 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.
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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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer 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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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