Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSGive me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSGood 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?
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUSSo 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.
BOETHIUSInconsistency 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.
BOETHIUSHe 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.
BOETHIUSLove 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.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUSThe good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUSMusic is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSIf there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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