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.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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 every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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