Boethius Quotes
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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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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.
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Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.
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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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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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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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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
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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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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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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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So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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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, 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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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
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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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...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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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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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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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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