Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSGood 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?
More Boethius Quotes
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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