Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSAnd no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
More Boethius Quotes
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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 a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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