The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSWhose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
More Boethius Quotes
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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