A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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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 a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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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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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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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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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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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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