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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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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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have 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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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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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