In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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Good 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?
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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You 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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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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He 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.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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