No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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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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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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