Boethius Quotes

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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End Goodness Philosophy
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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Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
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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Adversity Happiness Men Remember
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Glory Home Men Respect
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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Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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Fortune Happiness Oneself
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Excellence Himself Men
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Alone Deep Heaven Man
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Character Nature Person
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Deep Law Love Wisdom
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Gratitude Heaven Stability Worth
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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Establishment Happiness Life

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