black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Boethius

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS

Deep Law Love Wisdom
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUS

Freedom Music Nature Unity
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Happiness Men Remember
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUS

Glory Home Men Respect
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUS

Excellence Himself Men
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUS

End Goodness Philosophy
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS

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

Drink Goodness Home Man Memories Road Seek Soul
Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
BOETHIUS

Achievement Evil God Goodness Men Nature Seek Virtue
Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
BOETHIUS

Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
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.
BOETHIUS

Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS

Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
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

Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boethius Quotes