A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been 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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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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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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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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