"Man is so constituted that he then only……" — Boethius
"Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself."
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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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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with…
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.…
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For…
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
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I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she…
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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in…
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