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.
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.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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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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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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