The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
More Boethius Quotes
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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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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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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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