As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSHe who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
More Boethius Quotes
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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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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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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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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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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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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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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