Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSThe good is the end toward which all things tend.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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