"O felix hominum genus, si uestros animos amor quo caelum regitur regat!"
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O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled as is the universe, by Love! — Poem VIII, lines 28-30; translation by W. V. Cooper — Alternate translation: — : How happy is mankind if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480–524 CE) was a Roman Christian philosopher, poet, and politician.
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