He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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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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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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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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