Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSGive me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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