85 Quotes by Boethius

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    You would not search the woodside gayTo pick a springtime flowerWhen all the shuddering country groansBefore the North Wind's power.Nor would you seek with greedy handTo pluck your vines in May;The wine god gives his gift of grapesWhen Autumn's on the way.For God has fixed the season's tasksAnd each receives its own:No power is free to disarrayThe order God has shown.

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    Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.

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    Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.

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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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    But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessary become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.

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