Ill Turn Quotes by Boethius

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Boethius has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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,…
• I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me…
• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy…
• Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you…
• Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that…
• 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.

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