Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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 … can look fortune in the face.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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