Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSAll fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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 man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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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 so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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And 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.
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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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