Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUS
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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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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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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