Boethius Quotes

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

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

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.

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.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

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.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

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

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

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

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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

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

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

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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

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

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

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

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

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

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

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

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

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.