The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable unless you think it so.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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