The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSOne’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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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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