Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.

Boethius


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

Boethius


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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Boethius


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كلُّ قدرٍ هو قدرً سعيد لو أنك تلقيته بثباتٍ ورباطة جأش

Boethius


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The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.

Boethius


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And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

Boethius


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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

Boethius


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

Boethius

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