He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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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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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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 happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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