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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 Quote
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. | Boethius Quote
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. | Boethius Quote
As far as possible, join faith to reason. | Boethius Quote
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin. | Boethius Quote
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. | Boethius Quote
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. | Boethius Quote
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. | Boethius Quote
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. | Boethius Quote
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. | Boethius Quote
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. | Confucius Quote
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. | Boethius Quote
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things. | Boethius Quote
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity. | Boethius Quote
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 Quote
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself. | Boethius Quote
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. | Boethius Quote
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. | Boethius Quote
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