Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSSo 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.
More Boethius Quotes
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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 is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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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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