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.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
More Boethius Quotes
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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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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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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 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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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