Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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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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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is 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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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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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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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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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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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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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