Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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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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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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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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