85 Quotes by Boethius

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    Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

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    Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

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    ...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

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    Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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    He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

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    Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

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    Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

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    If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

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    You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

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