Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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