Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSThe 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.
More Boethius Quotes
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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 anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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