Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius quotes - page 2

But if you think that life can be prolonged by the breath of mortal fame, yet when the slow time robs you of this too, then there awaits you but a second death. (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? View quote
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired. View quote
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. View quote
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? View quote
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One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. View quote
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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things. View quote
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face. (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. View quote
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As far as possible, join faith to reason. View quote
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. View quote
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. View quote
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin. View quote
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The good is the end toward which all things tend. View quote
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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? View quote
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself. (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)