Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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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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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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