Boethius Quotes

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• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
• Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,…
• One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
• Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
• Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
• All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
• 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…
• I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
• Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.
• He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
• Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

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