4 Quotes by Boethius about philosophy

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    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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    There the Lord of kings holds His scepter, governing the reigns of the world. With sure control He drives the swift chariot, the shining judge of all things. If the road which you have forgotten, but now search for, brings you here, you will cry out: 'This I remember, this is my own country, here I was born and here I shall hold my place.

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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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    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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