Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUSContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSOne’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSMusic is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSIf there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUSGive me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSThe now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUSA man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUSThe 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.
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUSWhose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUSYou know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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