Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUS
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
More Boethius Quotes
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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 happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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