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• I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

  Boethius

  Wisdom, Illumination, Answers

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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

  Boethius

  Home, Men, May

  Boethius, Edward Kennard Rand (1953). “The theological tractates”

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• And no renown can render you well-known:
  For if you think that fame can lengthen life
  By mortal famousness immortalized,
  The day will come that takes your fame as well,
  And there a second death for you awaits.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Fame, Well Known

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• A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

  Boethius

  Individuality, Substance, Rational

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

  Boethius

  Fate, Acceptance, Looks

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

  Boethius

  Numbers, Secret, Acquisition

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

  Boethius

  Avoiding, Nobility, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 559-560, 1922.

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• In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

  Boethius

  Kindness, Adversity, Unhappy

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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. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

  Boethius

  Stars, Heart, Order

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

  Boethius

  Aggravation, Behavior, Music Is

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• Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

  Boethius

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

  Boethius

  Men, Unhappy, Fortune

  De Consolatione Philosophiae bk. 2, prose 4 See Dante Alighieri 7

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

  Boethius

  Intellectual, Suffering, Love And Friendship

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• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius

  Happiness, Depression, Depressing

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• The good is the end toward which all things tend.

  Boethius

  Goodness, Ends, All Things

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Boethius

  Memories, Home, Men

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

  Boethius

  Happiness, Sides, Quarrels

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

  Boethius

  Music, Song, Real

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

  Boethius

  Bears, Miserable, Estates

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.212, Aeterna Press

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• The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
  unlimited life at a single moment.

  Boethius

  Single Mom, Perfect, Moments

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