"A man content to go to heaven alone…" — Boethius
"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven."
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36 Quotes by Boethius
Boethius has 36 quotes on this site.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content…
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in…
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses…
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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.…
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Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge…
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not…
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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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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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