Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
More Boethius Quotes
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Good 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?
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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