“Every soul must pay back what it owes, either by using well what it received, or by losing what it was unwilling to use well.”
― On Free Choice of the Will
― On Free Choice of the Will
“Reason judges in one way, custom in another. Reason judges by the light of truth, so that by right judgment it subjects lesser things to greater. Custom is often swayed by agreeable habits, so that it esteems as greater what truth reveals as lower.”
― On Free Choice of the Will
― On Free Choice of the Will
“Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
― The Consolation of Philosophy
“Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
― The Consolation of Philosophy
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