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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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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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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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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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