"So it follows that those who have reason……" — Boethius
"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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36 Quotes by Boethius
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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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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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