Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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 completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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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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